Dan Sugalski writes: >When the RFCs first started coming out, bytes weren't always 8 bits, >though, hence octet. Not that perl runs on any TOPS-20 machines >(does it?), but byte has historically ranged between 6 and 9 bits >depending on the machine you were on. I have actually used perl4 on a TOPS-20 machine. XKL Systems ported it to their PDP-10 clone. I don't know if they ever tried to get perl 5 running. -- Ed Mooring <mooring@acm.org>